Class Number of Graduates 1907 4 1908 1 1909 None 1910 2 1911 10 1912 3 1913 4 1914 4 1915 7 1916 3 1917 10 1918 9 1919 19 1920 19 1921 17 1922 18 1923 14 1924 15 1925 10 1926 28 1927 20 1928 30 The first…
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Walton County Post Offices
As of March 16, 1913 (This was before Okaloosa County was formed and before the eastern part of Santa Rosa peninsula left Washington County to become the southern part of Walton County.) Argyle Bearhead Bolton Bruce Crestview Darlington Dearland DeFuniak Dorcas Ealum Freeport Garden City Glendale Gordon Lakewood Laurel Hill…
Whatever Happened to Fisher Monroe Douglas?
This advertisement (and similar ones) ran weekly in the Pensacola News Journal during the first quarter of 1906. No follow-up articles have been found, so the fates of the child and his kidnapper remain mysteries. A Hugh A. Douglass is buried in the Euchee Valley Cemetery, but the father of…
Why were teachers colleges called “normal schools”?
THANK FRANCE; the phrase is derived from “école normale,” which was used for institutions designed to instill standards of pedagogy and curriculum in teachers-to-be, says Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs, associate curator in the Division of Cultural and Community Life at the National Museum of American History. America’s first state-sponsored normal school opened…
Walton County Sheriffs
The following list is from Victor Silvestri’s excellent publication, Encyclopedia of Florida Sheriffs, which is available from the Walton County Heritage Museum Gift Shop. The two-volume set has biographies of every sheriff who served in Florida from 1821 until 2008. Four Walton County Sheriffs died while in office: J. Murdock…
Stuart Knox Gillis
Stuart Knox Gillis, seventh son and eleventh child of John and Christian McIntosh Gillis, was born at Knox Hill, Walton County, Florida on July 28, 1866. He, like his older brothers, attended school at the Old Knox Hill Academy. As did many of his Gillis kin, Knox Gillis taught school in his younger…
James McDaniel “Mack” Edge
In a story about Mack Edge, it states that his pet squirrel named Walter bit him on his finger, and the wound did not heal. Mack eventually went to a doctor in Milton who apparently removed his finger (“When he returned he had the finger in a bottle”) and told…
David Donaldson
In a story called, “David Donaldson (left) My Great Grandfather” it states, in part: “Benjamin [Donaldson] served three years in the Confederate Army, was captured by the Yankees and finally joined up with the Union forces at Barrancas in Pensacola. Ben was a blacksmith and his young son Dave worked…
Joel Turner Alford
Joel Turner Alford was born on May 2, 1929. He and his wife had six children and attended Oak Grove Baptist Church. Alford was a heavy equipment operator who worked in law enforcement for twelve years. He was at various times the Chief Deputy for the Walton County Sheriff’s Department…